Hazards
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Hazards is the only independent, union-friendly magazine to win major international awards. A recurring theme in the magazine is that workplace unions are the best hope for better, safer work - and Hazards says it provides the information and resources to make the union job easier. Hazards looks behind the company safety hype, and gives union answers to workplace problems. Using its global network of union safety correspondent Hazards aims to provide readers with best information available anywhere.
Hazards is the winner of The Work Foundation
Workworld Media Award 2007 and 2008 for online journalism. The judges said Hazards “is so good that it not only renders the material detailed and probing, but also lively and gutsy as well." In 2008, US business magazine EHS Today named Hazards editor Rory O’Neill one of the 50 most influential health and safety leaders of the last decade.
Hazards has jointly developed a Health and Safety NewsWire with LabourStart
which gives news headlines on unions' website as an RSS
feed.
Hazards is the winner of The Work Foundation
The Work Foundation
The Work Foundation is a British not-for-profit organisation and independent authority providing advice, consultancy and research on the future of work, improving the quality of working life, leadership, economic and organisational effectiveness. The foundation works with government, business...
Workworld Media Award 2007 and 2008 for online journalism. The judges said Hazards “is so good that it not only renders the material detailed and probing, but also lively and gutsy as well." In 2008, US business magazine EHS Today named Hazards editor Rory O’Neill one of the 50 most influential health and safety leaders of the last decade.
Hazards has jointly developed a Health and Safety NewsWire with LabourStart
LabourStart
is the online news service of the international trade union movement. Founded in March 1998, it distributes news both from its own website and also through which is used by over 730 trade union websites around the world. There are newswires for specific languages, countries, regions, and some...
which gives news headlines on unions' website as an RSS
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
feed.
See also
- Occupational safety and healthOccupational safety and healthOccupational safety and health is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goal of all occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe work environment...
- ACGIH
- Asbestosis - Compensation and Liability Disputes
- Participatory ErgonomicsParticipatory ErgonomicsIndustrial Ergonomics programs seek to identify and correct factors that negatively impact the physical health of their workers. Participatory ergonomics programs seek to maximize the involvement of the workers in this process based on the simple fact that a worker is an expert on his or her job...
- ErgonomicsErgonomicsErgonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities.The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows:...